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School he went to
Later, at the age of seventeen, Lincoln attended a school taught by Azel W. Dorsey. Dorsey was the best educated of his Indiana teachers and probably was responsible for helping him acquire his excellent grasp of mathematics. -
Public Opinion
Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life
(Johns Hopkins Press, 2008)
The Morality and Legality of Slavery Opposing the Extension of Slavery Slavery’s Influence The Dred Scott Case -
Public Opinion
Treasury official George S. Boutwell noted that Abraham “Lincoln possessed the almost divine faculty of interpreting the will of the people without any expression by them.”1 Abraham Lincoln was an expert on public opinion – what it was and how it could be managed. James Russell Lowell, the first editor of the Atlantic Monthly, wrote: “Nothing is more remarkable than the unerring tact with which, in his debate with Mr. Stephen A. Douglas, he went straight to the reason of the question; nor have w -
Effects
In 1982, forty-nine historians and political scientists were asked by the Chicago Tribune to rate all the Presidents through Jimmy Carter in five categories: leadership qualities, accomplishments/crisis management, political skills, appointments, and character/integrity. At the top of the list stood Abraham Lincoln. He was followed by Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and Harry Truman. None of these other Presidents excee -
Did he graduate
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin at. Sinking ...... Lincoln did not attend law school, and stated: "I studied with nobody. -
born
Abraham Lincoln is born on Feb 12, 1809. -
Employment
Lincoln worked as a boatman, store clerk, surveyor, militia soldier, and became a lawyer in Illinois. He was elected to the Illinois Legislature in 1834, and was reelected in 1836, 1838, 1840, and 1844. -
Lincons family
he had a girl and 2 boys -
Elected Presedent
On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party. -
Died
President Lincoln dies - Apr 15, 1865 -
what political party
Abraham was a republican
